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Secret Boat Strike Memo Justifies Killings By Claiming the Target Is Drugs, Not People In a memo promising legal immunity for those who kill alleged drug traffickers, the Trump administration floated an unusual legal theory.

Secret Boat Strike Memo Justifies Killings By Claiming the Target Is Drugs, Not People

In a memo promising legal immunity for those who kill alleged drug traffickers, the Trump administration floated an unusual legal theory.
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MAGA'S dilemma Is Donald Trump...

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Caribbean Matters: Is Trump emulating Teddy Roosevelt? Caribbean Matters is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of ...

Caribbean Matters: Is Trump emulating Teddy Roosevelt's Big Stick policies?
TR believed in white supremacy, "exterminating" Native Americans and supported eugenics - sterilization
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Unpacking The American Civil Liberties Union Unpacking the ACLU

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This item features 10 videos by iconic musicians

Black Music Sunday: Songs to get us through daylight saving � Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 285 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope ...

#BlackMusicSunday: Songs to get us through daylight saving
What’s your favorite song about time?
(Folks are posting theirs in the comments section of the story)
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#PuertoRico #LUMAEnergy proving one more time that privatization of essential services is a very bad idea for those who depend on the services. Massive recurring power outages aren't just inconvenient. Refrigeration & medical equipment don't just stop running, they're fried/destroyed w/ the surges.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

Whiteness Wednesdays: All Our Skinfolk are Kinfolk, or Why White Folks Defend the Confederacy Welcome to Whiteness Wednesdays. Recently, I had to deal with someone bringing up the old “we’re destroying our history” nonsense to justify the keeping of Confederate monuments. The question came up:...

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This week's #WhitenessWednesdays is up, and with the Trump admin trying to hide Black history that makes gramps uncomfortable now is a good time to ask: Why do people identify so strongly with dead Confederate bigots, anyway?

#BlackHistory #WhitenessWeds

Caribbean Matters: 8 years after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico is still recovering Caribbean Matters is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of ...

Caribbean Matters: 8 years after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico is still recovering
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Alex O'Keefe, Award-Winning Black Screenwriter, Pulled From Train After White Woman Objects To How He Was Sitting Alex O'Keefe, an award-winning Black screenwriter, was pulled from a train by the police after a white woman objected to his posture.

ARRESTED FOR SITTING

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Come join @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social and learn about the double discrimination experienced by Afro-Latinos, about the cancellation of Hispanic American Heritage Month Celebrations due to the mfg's racist ICE raids & other #CaribbeanMatters.

Caribbean Matters: Afro-Latinos and Hispanic American Heritage Month Caribbean Matters is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of ...

#CaribbeanMatters: Afro-Latinos and Hispanic American Heritage Month
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I recommend everyone watches this

#CharlieKirk How you die does not redeem how you lived.
The ignoble remain ignoble even in death.

@LePapillonBlu2 Maya
We are living in the dumbest timeline in human history. 😳

He violated international law and murdered 11 people in international waters without proof and for an offense that does not merit capital punishment.

So....killing someone before they get to your country is justifiable how exactly

Black Music Sunday: Songs about work and workers for Labor Day weekend Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 275 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope you��

A serious. lighthearted, fun, beguiling, BLACK MUSIC SUNDAY on work, women's work, Lucille Bogan's work. Hope you have a great Labor Day. And thanks to the great toiler among the grooves @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social ! p.s. keep reading in the comments.

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SOMETHING YOU WILL NEVER SEE: ICE ROUNDING UP THE CEO's WHO ILLEGALY EXPLOITED UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS

So I got to get up early in the morning.

Have a good night. ✊ ✌️

And if you can’t make it, now is the time to wear your rainbow, hang your rainbow flags, put up your rainbow sticker, and flood social media with #ShowYourRainbow — no matter where you are in the state.

🚨TAKE ACTION🚨

In the dead of night, Ron DeSantis ordered part of the Pulse memorial painted over. That’s why we’re calling on everyone in Orlando to show up for a peaceful gathering today at the Pulse Memorial at 6:00pm ET.

#ShowYourRainbow🌈

Lawmaker: Support ‘in the street’ for PIP outstrips record 2024 vote By John McPhauljpmcphaul1@gmail.comPuerto Rican Independence Party (PIP by its acronym in Spanish) Rep. Nelie Lebrón Robles says that while the PIP won a record 31% of the gubernatorial vote in last y...

Lawmaker: Support ‘in the street’ for PIP (Puerto Rican Independence Party) outstrips record 2024 vote
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Caribbean Matters: How to support Haitians fighting deportation from the US Caribbean Matters is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of ...

Caribbean Matters: How to support Haitians fighting deportation from the US
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Caribbean Matters: How to support Haitians fighting deportation from the US Caribbean Matters is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of ...

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The current cabal's racism directed at Haitians is not a surprise to me. Step up and aid in the fight back!

While much of the media’s focus around Immigrations and Customs Enforcement raids and deportations has been on our current government’s obsession with ridding this country of Latinos, it’s important to remember that the Haitian community continues to to be one of the most vilified groups.